Rolling Post-Wrestlemania 21 OMGWTF thread

It looked like both Benjamin and Jericho pulled heel turns, although I'm sure that wasn't the intention. What was wrong with Benjamin as a face anyway? I liked his cockiness combined with his athleticism... isn't that's what in part got RVD so over before they screwed that up?

Hassan will be the hot new Christian unless he develops a moveset. Davari, his friggin' manager in kayfabe, pulled out more moves.

I find it morbidly fascinating that HHH is no longer even trying to maintain a semblance of not having RAW revolve around him.

Re the Daivari thing, it bugged me how JR, rather than act surprised but grudgingly impressed that Daivari could actually do a few decent moves, in a manner that might like, get him over, went with the 'oh mah gawd how is this skinny little a-rab getting offence against the SHOWSTOPPER?!' talk instead.

'Mr Money In The Bank' is an awful nickname for Edge, made worse by the fact that Lawler always latches onto anything like that like an overexcited schoolkid and repeats it at every opportunity. They really need a new, non-senile commentary team. Tazz's 'I invented that move/that's really putting pressure on the leg - SMART, Cole' shtick is infinitely preferable.

Who'll kill themselves first: Matt Hardy or Rhyno?

It is, but I like how they've handled the post-Mania MitB fallout so far (one of the only decent things they've done post-Mania). It's great how Edge carries the briefcase with him everywhere and is given the oppurtunity to make not-idle threats thanks to his win. They can get months of mileage out of this stuff and should build to a Summerslam match.

i love the king and JR as the commentary team, me and my flatmate have agreed that they are the best commentary team in the whole world of sport (and/or entertainment) right now.

Kane stalks Trish, and the save is made by ....

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VISCERA???!?!?!?!?!?!??!!!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Coach: I have no idea why Viscera is out here!!

To quote SK, I love shoot comments that aren't supposed to be shoot comments.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Raw fucking STINKS, doesn't it? I turned off after the Hogan posedown, but Jesus, the generic gay tag-team, and then Daivari stomping on Michaels for the DQ just after Hassan had hit his finisher and could have won the match, and then Hogan walking down and stopping to pose while Michaels was being HANGED IN THE ROPES. Agh.

(The segment-ruining 'you screwed Matt' chanting at Lita was funny though)

Chris Masters is going to get this stupid full nelson challenge segment every week? The guy is useless. The Masterlock? As if the guy's gimmick hasn't been a failure every time it's been used in wrestling history (Luger, Stasiak, Jindrak -- JUST LAST YEAR), I can't believe they're trying to get the full nelson -- which hasn't been taken seriously since c. 1987 -- over as a crippling move.

And every week leading up to his turn, Batista was the guy who always saw through HHH's bullshit, and was always there to deliver the snarky/witty line to hammer home his point. Now he's an afterthought on his own show. He's never on even onscreen, while HHH gets to destroy him verbally in every other segment.

Most amazing moment of the show thus far, easily.

MSG does NOT like Cena! And they're filming SD there this week, haha.

At least HHH had to lie around selling a chair shot for four hours. Kind of like all those big matches where his opponents had to lie around selling the pedigree for an hour before getting pinned, except that nobody cares about tonight's match.

The "Heart Throbs" are not going anywhere with Yet Another Gay Gimmick (though hey, now that both Billy AND Chuck have been fired, MAYBE PEOPLE WILL FORGET THEM! YES). But with a bit of tweaking, I imagine they could go over even better as a subtle homage to Zoolander and Hansel.

Pimp Viscera = augh. Maybe if his ring gear didn't make him look like goth Grimace I wouldn't be as traumatized. I doubt it, though.

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When he's as funny and insightful as he was tonight, then yes, you are "supposed" to read him.

I really wish I could have seen MSG turn on Lita. Good for them. Not that I want Matt v.1nternetcrybaby to come back, but its still funny.

They had a poorly explained (and stupid) angle where HHH paid off the limo company to take Batista for "the ride of his life".

He's the cerebral assassin, you know.

I'm going to get "MATT HARDY" tattooed across my heart, I think.

Somehow he manages to hug and cradle JR and still come off like a badass in the end.

In case you guys haven't heard, Mania drew about a million buys, 14% more than last year and one of the biggest buyrates in the history of the company. Batista = Money. The WWE has got to be waking up to this shit, although the HHH-Batista Hell in a Cell rumours for June might suggest otherwise.

HBK + Hogan = Dream Team? Hey, remember when Shawn and Orton teamed up on RAW two months ago and were labelled the "Dream Team"?

Hopefully Vince & Co. can string together some compelling storylines and put on some decent programming to keep up the momentum.

One of the P3 brunettes they brought out was smoking, otherwise, it's an easy win for the Divas.